RathBiotaClan Spotlights — handpicked featured science stories and highlighted research discoveries. Each Spotlight goes deeper than a news story, exploring the significance and implications of the most fascinating findings in life science.
Something odd happened in a California park last summer. Ground squirrels the chunky, sunbathing herbivores you step around on hiking...
You slip in your wireless earbuds for a morning run, a long work call, or that binge-worthy true-crime podcast. They’re...
A throwaway remark about “alien” biology sparked a viral myth. The reality of octopus genetics is stranger and more illuminating...
Everyone blushes. Or rather, virtually everyone has the capacity to blush though the flush of red is more visible on...
Have you ever noticed how a single worry can suddenly appear in an otherwise happy moment? You might be laughing...
For decades, autism has been understood as a condition that overwhelmingly affects boys. Walk into any specialist clinic, scan any...
Neonatal neural augmentation implanting AI-powered knowledge chips into a newborn’s brain is one of the most ambitious and ethically charged...
Scientists revive neural activity in a brain region frozen at −196 °C, preserving the circuitry of memory. Not a single...
Scientists have copied an entire biological brain neuron by neuron and synapse by synapse and made it control a simulated...
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
